Cherry
noun
A small round fruit that is usually red or yellow and has a pit in the middle.
I love to eat fresh cherries in the summer.
Often appears as...
- fresh cherries
- cherry pie
noun
A tree that grows cherries.
We have a cherry tree in our backyard.
Often appears as...
- cherry blossom
- cherry tree
adjective
Having a bright red color.
She painted her lips with a cherry lipstick.
Often appears as...
- cherry red
- cherry lipstick
noun
A bright red color.
He painted his car cherry.
Often appears as...
- cherry car
- cherry red
noun
Something special or extra.
They offered free drinks as a cherry on top of the great service.
Often appears as...
- cherry on top
- cherry-pick
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
noun
A small round fruit that is usually red or yellow and has a pit in the middle.
I love to eat fresh cherries in the summer.
Often appears as...
- fresh cherries
- cherry pie
noun
A tree that grows cherries.
We have a cherry tree in our backyard.
Often appears as...
- cherry blossom
- cherry tree
adjective
Having a bright red color.
She painted her lips with a cherry lipstick.
Often appears as...
- cherry red
- cherry lipstick
noun
A bright red color.
He painted his car cherry.
Often appears as...
- cherry car
- cherry red
noun
Something special or extra.
They offered free drinks as a cherry on top of the great service.
Often appears as...
- cherry on top
- cherry-pick
Usage tips
Informal
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/3Color Variations
Remember that cherries can be red or yellow, so don't always imagine them as red.
Yellow cherries are also sweet like the red ones.
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Context
Cherries are often associated with desserts, like pies, and are eaten fresh.
After dinner, we enjoyed a delicious homemade cherry cobbler.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Fruit
Cherries are seasonal, with peak availability in summer in many places.
Let's go cherry picking this June!
Pro Tip 1/3Color Variations
Remember that cherries can be red or yellow, so don't always imagine them as red.
Yellow cherries are also sweet like the red ones.
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Context
Cherries are often associated with desserts, like pies, and are eaten fresh.
After dinner, we enjoyed a delicious homemade cherry cobbler.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Fruit
Cherries are seasonal, with peak availability in summer in many places.
Let's go cherry picking this June!
Pro Tip 1/3Color Variations
Remember that cherries can be red or yellow, so don't always imagine them as red.
Yellow cherries are also sweet like the red ones.
Pro Tip 2/3Edible Context
Cherries are often associated with desserts, like pies, and are eaten fresh.
After dinner, we enjoyed a delicious homemade cherry cobbler.
Pro Tip 3/3Seasonal Fruit
Cherries are seasonal, with peak availability in summer in many places.
Let's go cherry picking this June!
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How to spot a misleading...
These techniques are known as cherry picking. A time range can be carefully chosen to exclude the impact of a major event right outside it. And picking specific data points can hide important changes in between. Even when there's nothing wrong with the graph itself, leaving out relevant data can give a misleading impression.
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The life cycle of a cup...
and are now cultivated throughout equatorial regions. Each shrub is filled with small berries called "coffee cherries." Since fruits on the same branch can ripen at different times, they’re best picked by hand, but each farm has its own method for processing the fruit.
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My journey to thank all...
It's a small farm, they make great coffee, they're paid above fair-trade prices for it. And they showed me how the coffee is grown. The bean is actually inside this fruit called the coffee cherry. And I thanked them. And they said, "Well, we couldn't do our job
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The new era of positive...
then pleasure's the whipped cream and the cherry. Which is to say, the full life -- the sum is greater than the parts, if you've got all three. Conversely, if you have none of the three, the empty life, the sum is less than the parts.
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How centuries of sci-fi...
of resting while trimming a cherry tree on his family's farm and having a vision of a spacecraft taking off from the valley below and ascending into the heavens. And he decided then and there that he would commit the rest of his life
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Mallika Sarabhai: Dance...
that has consistently showed us that we can break down barriers, that we can reach people? What I need to say to the planners of the world, the governments, the strategists is, "You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake.
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On positive psychology -...
pursuit of engagement is also very strong where pleasure matters is if you have both engagement and you have meaning then pleasures the whipped cream and the cherry which is to say the full life the sum is greater than then the
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How one tree grows 40...
In fact, almost all of our fruit trees were brought here, including apples and peaches and cherries. So more than just food, embedded within these fruit is our culture. It's the people who cared for and cultivated them,
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To Remember or Not to...
also have an apple and cherry yes fair maiden Kiwis and ripe melons too but not a vegetable in sight hahahaha nary a one that's definitely a
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Seal Swims into City...
this sealed cannot escape to the cherries should you choose to do so yet
Video examples
How to spot a misleading...
These techniques are known as cherry picking. A time range can be carefully chosen to exclude the impact of a major event right outside it. And picking specific data points can hide important changes in between. Even when there's nothing wrong with the graph itself, leaving out relevant data can give a misleading impression.
Video examples
The life cycle of a cup...
and are now cultivated throughout equatorial regions. Each shrub is filled with small berries called "coffee cherries." Since fruits on the same branch can ripen at different times, they’re best picked by hand, but each farm has its own method for processing the fruit.
Video examples
My journey to thank all...
It's a small farm, they make great coffee, they're paid above fair-trade prices for it. And they showed me how the coffee is grown. The bean is actually inside this fruit called the coffee cherry. And I thanked them. And they said, "Well, we couldn't do our job
Video examples
The new era of positive...
then pleasure's the whipped cream and the cherry. Which is to say, the full life -- the sum is greater than the parts, if you've got all three. Conversely, if you have none of the three, the empty life, the sum is less than the parts.
Video examples
How centuries of sci-fi...
of resting while trimming a cherry tree on his family's farm and having a vision of a spacecraft taking off from the valley below and ascending into the heavens. And he decided then and there that he would commit the rest of his life
Video examples
Mallika Sarabhai: Dance...
that has consistently showed us that we can break down barriers, that we can reach people? What I need to say to the planners of the world, the governments, the strategists is, "You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake.
Video examples
On positive psychology -...
pursuit of engagement is also very strong where pleasure matters is if you have both engagement and you have meaning then pleasures the whipped cream and the cherry which is to say the full life the sum is greater than then the
Video examples
How one tree grows 40...
In fact, almost all of our fruit trees were brought here, including apples and peaches and cherries. So more than just food, embedded within these fruit is our culture. It's the people who cared for and cultivated them,
Video examples
To Remember or Not to...
also have an apple and cherry yes fair maiden Kiwis and ripe melons too but not a vegetable in sight hahahaha nary a one that's definitely a
Video examples
Seal Swims into City...
this sealed cannot escape to the cherries should you choose to do so yet
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Mel Giedroyc
English Entertainer
People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.
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Bob Fosse
American Celebrity
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
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Nico Hulkenberg
German Driver
I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.
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Dominick Cruz
American Athlete
I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.
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Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
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Fuzzy Zoeller
American Athlete
Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
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John N. Mitchell
American Politician
You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
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Navjot Singh Sidhu
Indian Entertainer
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
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Sissy Spacek
American Actress
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
Quote examples
Mel Giedroyc
English Entertainer
People are used to seeing me with Sue but for Sue and me, the most important thing is always going to be our friendship. We were mates at university - very close mates - long before we did any telly. The work is like a nice little cherry on the cake.
Quote examples
Bob Fosse
American Celebrity
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
Quote examples
Nico Hulkenberg
German Driver
I never had the help of money in the background - it could be the cherry on the top a little bit - whereas some others had that to offer.
Quote examples
Dominick Cruz
American Athlete
I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.
Quote examples
Jennifer Aniston
American Actress
A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
Quote examples
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Quote examples
Fuzzy Zoeller
American Athlete
Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.
Quote examples
John N. Mitchell
American Politician
You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.
Quote examples
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Indian Entertainer
We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.
Quote examples
Sissy Spacek
American Actress
For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
Example 1 of 10
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